Address: 1023 W. Madison Street. Well-dressed African American men, women and children stand in front of trucks parked along the curb. Each truck has a sign attached to it that reads, "Greetings from United Merry Christmas Club of Sunshine Center."...

One of Kate Matthews' Christmas cards. The top part of the card features a Kate Matthews' photograph of the snow-covered gate on Ashwood Avenue at the photographer's family home, Clovercroft, in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. On the bottom portion of the...

Secretary of War William Howard Taft (third from left), President Theodore Roosevelt's representative at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri (and his successor as U.S. President, in 1909), exchanges greetings with local dignitaries: Thomas H....

New Year's card with a wintry scene, including a stone structure, perhaps a church, and snowy trees. The structure, a red stone building, has a domed tower with a bell. A poem is printed on the front: "As sweet toned bells the New Year chime;...

Full-length character portrait of performer Richard Harrison gazing upward, wearing a hat and long suit jacket with vest and white bow tie. Born circa.1864, he died circa 1935, and played the role of "The Lord" in the musical "The Green Pastures"...

Portrait of performer Walter C. (W. C.) Kelly, a large man wearing a dark suit and tie. The Vaudeville performer was born October 29, 1873, in Mineville, New York, and died January 6, 1939 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Inscription on mount, lower...

Three-quarter length portrait of actor Frederick Warde seated in a wooden chair with hand on cheek. He is wearing a three-piece suit with watch fob. Warde appeared in eight productions at Macauley's Theatre between 1881 and 1904, including...

Character portrait of actress Rachel Booth (1862-1955) in costume for the role of "Carry Story" [?] in Charles H. Hoyt's "A Tin Soldier." She wears a dark blouse with lacy jumper, and holds a cat to her cheek. Booth married actor James T. Powers...

Portrait of Lillian Blauvelt, an American opera singer (soprano) who also performed in musicals on Broadway. She wears a hat with plumes and a necklace and earrings. Ms. Blauvelt married William F. Pendleton in 1899. She performed in "The Rose of...

Three-quarter length character portrait of American soprano Bessie Abott wearing a tunic and fur-trimmed cloak and clutching a long beaded necklace. Born Bessie Pickens in Riverside, New York in 1878, Abott died February 9, 1919, in New York City....

The Newton Owen Postcard Collection represents nearly a century in the life and travels of an extended Kentucky family. The earliest cards date to the late 19th century, and while the bulk of the collection dates to the period 1900-1940, there are...